A Haunted Heart Chapter 4, a ravenswood fanfic

Part I - Hanna

Hanna woke up groggily while she slowly tried to remember what exactly had happened and why was her head hurting as if a car had hit her... Again. As she slowly started to take in her surroundings she tried not to panic as she noticed that she had her hands tied behind her back and that she was locked up in what appeared to be a Chapel.

As she took in her surroundings she quickly noticed however that she still had her legs free. Not long as she awoke she tried to get up only to find that her entire body seemed glued to the floor as if some invisible force was keeping her there in the same position. She slowly managed to lift herself in a sitting position. Hanna barely refrained from screaming as she watched a little blonde girl appear in front of her from thin air.

-"Hello Hanna my name is Maxie and you and I will be spending some quality time together until Caleb and his friends join us. Don't worry I have no intention of hurting you." the little girl spoke her voice shifting from that of a girl to that of a woman then a man only for it to finish sounding as something that wasn't from Earth.

Hanna felt her blood freeze as she watched the little girl in front of her and then suddenly she remembered who she was. "You were the one that brought me here isn't it? But how did you do that? Just what exactly are you? And what does Caleb got to do with any of this?"

-"Your friend Caleb is one of the Chosen five." As Hanna's face clearly showed confusion, Maxie slowly hissed "I swear I always end up saying this story over and over again. Ok let me explain to you using as few words as possible."

Hanna in the mean time slowly thanked the lord that her spare telephone that she used only for emergencies was still in her jeans back pocket. She slowly managed to remove it and carefully dialed Caleb's number, praying that he would come find her if he managed to overhear enough of her talk to Max.

-"In 1918 the Ravenswood town elders signed a secret pact. Since then no soldier from Ravenswood has ever died from active combat. The price for this on going miracle? Five teens must die. Five per war. At least that' how it worked until Caleb and Miranda came to Ravenswood. The good news for your friends? Four of them survived the bad news? Miranda didn't make it. And now she's stuck here as a ghost with no way to move on. Oh and the only ones that cans seee her are the ones marked by the curse :Caleb, Remy, Luke and Olivia".

Hanna's mind stopped working completely as she listened to the girl in front of her. She finally understood why Caleb had kept stuff from her. It was never about falling out of love, it had always been about protection : hers. "Oh My God.". Hanna slowly disconnected her phone and also pressed the button to turn it off.. She had a hunch that while she was safe if Caleb was to come save her he could end up hurt or worse he could end up dead.

-"Why am I here? Why did you bring me to this chapel? What do you plan to do to Caleb and his friends?" Hanna thanked the lord for learning to keep her calm under stress because of her dealings with A., as she started looking for ways out of the building. Apparently was impossible unless she has the key to the only door. She tried to move her feet again only to realize that she was still held in place but that her strength was slowly but surely returning to her.

-"I don't want anything from them. It is he who claims the debts that wants them", Maxie seemed to watch into places far away. "Escaping this Pact is pointless, all those that have tried to change this have died. And those that tried to get off the Pact list by offering something in exchange have ended up paying far more worse fates than death."

As Maxie spoke Hanna notice a that one of the rays of light that came through one of the windows shined on a pavement block where six names appeared. She watched in astonishment as one of the names on the floor was "Rivers".

-"Why is Caleb's name on the floor?" She quietly asked the red coated girl. "And just how exactly did he became a target for this curse, this Pact?" She was interrupted from her questions by Maxie who suddenly opened her purse and grabbed her cell phone. Hanna watched helpless as Caleb answered the phone.

-"Hanna? Is that you? Are you OK? Where are you? Baby tell me where you are so that I can find you". Hanna wasn't willing to allow him to get involved in this however she found herself lacking air for every moment she refused to speak to Caleb.

-"Caleb, I'm in some sort of chapel. I'm alright sorry for disappearing on you. O just wanted to let you know that I'm ok and that I'm with a little girl as charming as our friend A, from Rosewood. I don't think I'll be here much longer though".

Hanna coughed as her lack of air increased while she started to feel pressure on her lungs. She silently prayed that Caleb would understand that he was walking into a trap, by coming to her rescue. No sooner had she finished talking that Maxie ended the phone conversation and vanished into thin air leaving Hanna alone in the chapel.

She wasn't able to move from her spot however because a young man entered the chapel and after seeing her there slowly made his way over and knocked her out using a flash light. Dillon then took Hanna's body and hid it so that she would be found only if people passed the better half of the chapel's entrance. He then went and hid himself and waited for the people who were supposed to find Hanna to come and find her...

Part II Caleb

Caleb simply stormed into Raymond Collins' office and faced the dark haired man.

-"My girlfriend Hanna went missing. What do yo know about this?" As he started talking Caleb noticed that his friends had followed him inside the room with Olivia slowly closing the door behind her.

-"What makes you think I know anything? I wasn't even aware that you had a girlfriend, let alone that she was here." Raymond Collins kept hs voice stable as he slowly wondered just what exactly had happened for the girl that they were currently discussing to have gone missing especially since harming her would have meant exposure about the Pact.

-"I don't have time for this" Caleb's impatience grew "my girlfriend is missing and she could be hurt or she could die if i don't get to her soon enough.". He deliberated whether he could actually get answers from creepy Collins before using brutal force on him. He chose to save his anger for Hanna's kidnapper instead. "You know exactly what is going on and you have always known". Caleb watched as Raymond Collins slowly raised from his chair and walked away from his desk.

-"And just what exactly is going on?" Raymond tried to see how far the young an was willing to go, just how many card he was willing to put down on the table. He slowly pondered whether to tell the people in front of him what he knew about the Pact or not. He finally decided it was best to share the truth.

-"There was a Collins when the deal was made. There has always been a Collins taking orders, snipping hair, keeping those souls in escrow for somebody " Caleb allowed himself to blow off some steam by yelling at him, while Olivia made a simple gesture for Luke to refrain Caleb if he lost his temper and went after Collins. But even to the other teenagers what came out of Raymond's mouth next sounded not much of a surprise.

-"My family has kept this town safe for a hundred years." Caleb felt himself reaching out towards his patience limits. Just as he made a move towards Raymond, Luke grabbed his shoulder as Remy slowly asked

-"By killing kids every time someone got to war?" they were all surprised to see a crack in the man's mask as he slowly watched them , annoyance clearly showing on his face at the mere idea of his family killing people.

-"No Collins has ever harmed a soul" Despite everything Collins kept his voice calm as he continued talking to the teens. Caleb snorted in annoyance as he released himself from Luke's grip while Miranda slowly got closer to her uncle's side.

-"No you only keep them in a jar for somebody" Caleb started talking once again. Only to find himself interrupted by his cell phone. He slowly checked to see it was Hanna's old number. As he tried to call her back he was sent to her voice mail once again. He slowly cursed, but decided to continue his conversation with Collins

-"You couldn't possible understand" Raymond slowly became agitated by the simple fact that the teens in front of him seemed to believe that he was responsible for something that he had no idea about.

-"The mayor figured it out. That's why you sent Dillon in there to kill him". Collins suddenly turned his face to Caleb watching him in shock.

-"Dillon did what?" he barely whispered.

-"He stabbed the Mayor" Caleb continued his accusations.

-"Dillon had the knife all this time?" It quickly became clear to the five teens in the room that the only one who knew nothing about Charles' murder was the man who owned the town's single funeral parlor.

-"You didn't know?" Olivia's voice asked the question but none of them really needed an answer as the truth was clearly written on Raymond Collins' face. He slowly sighed as he decided it was best to explain what he knew of the Pact.

-"The Collins men have always been the one to be the trigger. That's why we kept the children of the Pact. To hold their essence in those jars, until the contract was completed."

-"You could've changed this" Caleb continued with his accusations. But he however did not expected what he heard next.

-"My sister thought she could change this and now she's dead. Charlie Matheson thought he could break the curse and got a knife in his chest. Whoever questions this gets the same answer, : death." Raymond's voice broke over in pain of the terrible losses that he had suffered during his lifetime.

-"You did try to change it. You sent Miranda away and when she came back you tried to scare her off..." Caleb watched as Miranda slowly turned her gaze from him to her uncle pain written all over her face.

-"You have no idea how that was like. My sister's child... My last living connection I had in this world and I slammed the door on her face and then she was gone. These things were done before we even arrived on the scene. They are beyond our ability of influencing them"

Caleb made a step forward only to hear his cell phone ringing again. He recognised it as Hanna's personal ringtone that he had kept on his cell. He quickly answered it.

-"Hanna? Is that you? Are you OK? Where are you? Baby tell me where you are so that I can find you". Caleb let all of his emotions be noticed in his voice.

-"She's in the chapel with Maxie, the muppet from hell." As everybody else held their breaths he slowly walked to the door with only one purpose on his mind. Saving hanna and getting her home to safety.